[ Buddy you are getting so interrogated when they're out of this nightmare. Considering her own dual nature, she can't imagine how that works. She's terrible at balancing it. ]

All right.

While we're here, there's something I should tell you. Just a factual thing, before I forget. [ The urge to rub at her neck where he was nipping at it before is strong, but she fights the impulse. ]

My blood is extremely potent. It turns humans into my servants. A blood bond. Removes most of their free will. I'm not sure what it would do to someone nonhuman, but I have no desire to find out.

[ The implication is pretty clear: he can't swallow her blood if they get carried away, but she doesn't say it. ]

That's what a Chevalier is, by the way; one of my servants. What some of those ghosts crying out for me were. The word means "knight." They've all been gone a long time.